Environmental Studies

Environmental Studies at Bowdoin equips students with knowledge, skills, and perspectives to understand the causes and consequences of local and global environmental problems, with the goal of developing just, equitable solutions. Our curriculum emphasizes thinking across and beyond disciplines and embracing interdisciplinary inquiry in the humanities, arts, social sciences, and natural sciences.

Teach Surfing in Senegal? Political Consulting? Bowdoin's Summertime Internship Grants Have You Covered
Bowdoin awarded a record number of summertime grants to students to pursue their dream internships in locations around the world.
Incoming Roux Scholar Receives Honorary Degree from Middlebury
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, who will be joining Bowdoin in July as its Roux Distinguished Scholar, also gave the Commencement address at Middlebury College's graduation.
Bowdoin Announces Four Appointments to New Chairs Honoring Distinguished Black Graduates
Bowdoin has appointed a cohort of four accomplished scholars to new endowed faculty professorships honoring distinguished Black graduates of the College. These new positions, which are fully funded by donors, will focus on the interdisciplinary study of race, racism, and racial justice and across themes of environmental justice and belonging, citizenship, and freedom.

Join us in celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Environmental Studies at Bowdoin College.

Read An Environmental Studies Program for a Rapidly Changing World.